October 2008
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. launched a public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server, providing even greater flexibility for deploying solutions in the AWS cloud.
Additionally, AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 is now Generally Available, having successfully exited its beta period and now offers a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Launched in beta in August of 2006, Amazon EC2 is the popular AWS service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud for businesses and developers.
"When we launched Amazon EC2 over two years ago, the idea of accessing computing power over the web was still a novel idea. Today a diverse array of businesses drawn by the benefits of cloud computing - cost savings without giving up speed, reliability, flexibility, and performance - are running EC2 for all types of applications," said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2.
"We've listened closely to our customers for the past two years and worked backward from their requirements, adding important new features such as those we are announcing today -- Windows support and a Service Level Agreement."
Eli Lilly and Company is a leading pharmaceutical company with a history of innovation. As a part of Lilly's efforts to find new and improved methods to support research, Lilly recently began using AWS.
"Amazon EC2 has given us the ability to easily spin up tailored computing environments that can quickly and cost-effectively process tremendous amounts of research data," said Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company.
"This is a huge step forward in maximizing our results relative to IT spend, and now that Amazon EC2 runs Windows and SQL Server, we have even greater flexibility in the kinds of applications we can build in the AWS cloud."
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